Electronic device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2017102741-A1
Application number	US-201615288966-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Oct 7, 2016
Priority date	Oct 8, 2015
Publication date	Apr 13, 2017
Grant date	—

Abstract

An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device includes a link mechanism provided in a body chassis and configured to operate in linkage with a rotational moving operation for rotationally moving a display chassis relative to a body chassis by a hinge mechanism and a drive wire that is a drive member configured to couple between the link mechanism and a keyboard unit and operate in linkage with the link mechanism, thereby to change relative height positions between a key top and a frame, in which the drive wire is extended to the outside of the keyboard unit through an insertion port formed in a side wall of a base plate and is coupled with the link mechanism and the body chassis includes a drainage passage at a position located under the insertion port.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An electronic device comprising:
a body chassis includes a keyboard body having a plurality of key tops surrounded by a frame and a base plate that supports a bottom surface of said keyboard body; a display chassis includes a display having a hinge mechanism; a link mechanism, provided in said body chassis, is configured to rotationally move said display chassis relative to said body chassis by said hinge mechanism; and a drive member, configured to couple between said link mechanism and said keyboard body, operates in linkage with said link mechanism, thereby changing relative height positions between said key tops and said frame, wherein said drive member is extended to the outside of said keyboard body through an insertion port formed in said base plate and is coupled with said link mechanism, and said body chassis includes a drainage passage at a position located under said insertion port.

2 . The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein said body chassis includes an electronic substrate located between said keyboard body and a bottom surface cover.

3 . The electronic device of claim 2 , wherein said electronic substrate has an opening at a position located under said insertion port.

4 . The electronic device of claim 2 , wherein said link mechanism has a slide member in which a slit with which an end part of said drive member that has been extended to an outside of said keyboard body through said insertion port is engaged is provided, and rotates said drive member by moving in a fore-and-aft directions in association with a rotating operation of said hinge mechanism.

5 . The electronic device of claim 4 , wherein said slide member has a projection installed on an upper surface side of said electronic substrate on a side part of said keyboard body, projects downward from an lower surface side of said slit and has been inserted into said opening of said electronic substrate.

6 . The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein said drainage passage includes a drainage port that has been formed through said bottom surface cover of said body chassis and a tub-shaped part that connects between said drainage port and a position located under said insertion port in order to allow the flowing of a liquid.

7 . The electronic device of claim 4 , wherein a plurality of said drive members is arranged side by side along said fore-and-aft direction of said keyboard body, and a plurality of said insertion ports is provided so as to respectively correspond to said drive members.

8 . The electronic device of claim 4 , wherein said tub-shaped part is provided throughout a position located under all of said insertion ports and a downstream side thereof communicates with said drainage port.

9 . The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein said base plate has a bath-tub shape part which allows housing of the bottom surface of the keyboard body and allows storage of a liquid therein and the insertion port is formed in a side wall of the bath-tub shape part.

Assignees

• Lenovo Singapore Pte Ltd

Inventors

• Kinoshita Hiroaki

Classifications

• G06F1/1633

  Constructional details or arrangements of portable computers not specific to the type of enclosures covered by groups G06F1/1615 - G06F1/1626 · CPC title

• G06F1/1601

  Constructional details related to the housing of computer displays, e.g. of CRT monitors, of flat displays (constructional details related to flat displays integrated in a portable computer, e.g. laptop, handheld computer G06F1/1637; constructional details related to television receivers H04N5/64) · CPC title

• G06F1/1681

  Details related solely to hinges (hinge details related to the transmission of signals or power are classified in G06F1/1683) · CPC title

• G06F1/1662 Primary

  Details related to the integrated keyboard · CPC title

• G06F1/1618

  the display being foldable up to the back of the other housing with a single degree of freedom, e.g. by 360° rotation over the axis defined by the rear edge of the base enclosure · CPC title